Secret Country: To Heck with Ole Santa Claus

If there's anything I love more than doing art for Secret Country, it's doing another Secret Country Christmas single! This year, Kearny's finest has given us a cover of Loretta Lynn's ass-kickin' 1966 anti-carol, "To Heck with Ole Santa Claus!" Go give it a spin (if you can call streaming something online "spinning." 

 

Secret Country, Under the Mistletoe

 I've done more artwork for Kearny NJ's Secret Country than any other band, but this latest work might be my favorite I've done for them. "Under the Mistletoe" is their new holiday single for 2020, including a VERY limited edition vinyl pressing. You can listen / buy on Bandcamp or snag the single at the Killing Horse Records' website! 

HOOTENANNY II poster

Another happy job for Secret Country, for this year's HOOTENANNY fest. This poster is based on the one-sheet for the 1963 film HOOTENANNY HOOT (see below) and expands the Al Capp tribute (Hot Dog girl is partially based on Daisy Mae, and partially based on someone else) by including Li'l Abner's younger brother, Tiny Yokum (albeit clad in a non-traditional hot dog shirt and green jeans).

Secret Country SUNY poster

The figure in this poster is a swipe from Robert McGinnis' cover to the Mike Shayne Mystery Pulp FIT TO KILL.

When I steal, I steal from the best!

Secret Country Whiskey Tee

Secret Country, Hard White Snow

This is the art for the new Secret Country Christmas single, "Hard White Snow!" You can git 'er here!

Secret Country Halloween Show Poster

Secret Country WOMEN, WHISKEY and NIGHTLIFE

I was tremendously excited to be asked to do the full artwork and layout for Kearny NJ's own Secret Country's CD WOMEN, WHISKEY and NIGHTLIFE. This is the cover. To see the rest, you have to buy the CD, a walloping slab of songs concerning the complex issues noted in the title. You will not regret it.

Secret Country Poster

This Secret Country poster uses the "Hot Dog Girl" image from the inside cover of the CD WOMEN, WHISKEY and NIGHTLIFE.

Secret Country Hootenanny Poster

Secret Country Red Bulls poster

This poster was done for a Secret Country show at the SCOTS club in Kearny NJ. No, that doesn't mean that Southern Culture on the Skids opened a club in New Jersey. I had to do a lot of research to find out what a soccer ball looks like these days.

Pier Sessions 3 Poster

The third of Miss Lea Simone's fantabulous Pier Sessions on the 14th St. Pier in Hoboken NJ.